In-House Hosting vs. Cloud Based Hosting
If you've recently decided to implement an ERP system like Epicor ERP at your company, you have a couple of options for where to deploy the system. You can either have it hosted on your in-house server or it can be hosted on a cloud server. Here is a look at each of...
5 Ways EstesGroup Helps with Your CMMC Compliance
You might be reading this post if you are researching Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), your company needs to become compliant, or your company is already compliant with CMMC but you have need of more IT services. In 2019 the Department of Defense...
What is CMMC: Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification?
CMMC: The Looming Cyber-Security Certification that Affects 60,000+ Companies. In 2019, the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced a new security protocol program for contractors, called Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). CMMC is a DoD...
Configuring Epicor 10 ERP to Launch a Form’s Custom Version
Making a form custom version in Epicor ERP gives businesses the information and flexibility they need to succeed. While administering our ECHO Epicor Hosting platform, we’ve had customers frequently ask us to help them configure the system to utilize a...
12 Days of ECHO, Twelfth Day: My Admin Gave to Me, Ransomware 2020 the Good, Bad, and Ugly
Ransomware the hits keep coming going into 2020 By now, we’ve all heard about someone affected by ransomware. If it wasn’t a friend’s business, or a company you do business with, or the town you live in, or the hospital you visit - all you have to do is look at...
12 Days of ECHO, Eleventh Day: My Admin Gave to Me, notes on Online Transaction Processing vs. Decision Support!
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Online Transaction Processing vs. Decision Support So, you’ve got your ERP system up and running, and before long, the management team wants reports, dashboards and executive data out of the system. That makes perfect...
12 Days of ECHO, Tenth Day: My Admin Gave to Me, Epicor Performance and Diagnostic Tool Checks!
SQL and the Reporting Engine Epicor ERP 10 provides the Performance and Diagnostics Tool as part of your Epicor Administration Console. While the tool is often installed when setting up an E10 solution, it’s often forgotten about afterwards. The full tool has...
12 Days of ECHO, Ninth Day: My Admin Gave to Me, Fixes so SSRS Won’t Hog Epicor CPU!
SQL and the Reporting Engine Epicor ERP 10 requires two primary SQL functions, the SQL Engine and the Reporting Engine, also known as SSRS – SQL Server Reporting Services. Each require a SQL licensed, but if you run both on the SAME operating system instance,...
12 Days of ECHO, Eighth Day: My Admin Gave to Me, Tips on Epicor SQL Transaction Log Maintenance!
Epicor and Microsoft SQL Transaction Log Maintenance - Performance Tips and Tricks Many Epicor 10 ERP installations suffer from a “lack of DBA”. It’s not for lack of desire, but keeping a full-time DBA (Database Administrator) on staff can be expensive. ...
12 Days of ECHO, Seventh Day: My Admin Gave to Me, Tips on Epicor ERP 10 Server Disk Space!
Epicor ERP 10 Server Disk Space – Where'd It Go? Do you ever wonder where your server’s disk space goes? Many times, you might not even notice until a server crashes with an ‘out of disk’ error message, or some application stops working. Only then might you start...